I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

- Ben Katchor

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in t…

- Ben Katchor

What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Moliè…

- Ben Katchor

There's a real connection between the history of print in Europe and nationalism, and how those two things could be formed. I think they may both now…

- Ben Katchor

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

- Ben Katchor

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

- Ben Katchor

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put c…

- Ben Katchor

You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know tha…

- Ben Katchor

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

- Ben Katchor